{"id":23,"date":"2008-05-20T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kafraco.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/20\/the-world-bank-refuses-to-help-myanmar\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T22:28:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T02:28:20","slug":"the-world-bank-refuses-to-help-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/the-world-bank-refuses-to-help-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Bank refuses to help Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According the The Voice of America news website, <a href=\"http:\/\/voanews.com\/english\/2008-05-20-voa6.cfm\">the World Bank is refusing to give loans to Myanmar<\/a> because the military government hasn&#8217;t paid any outstanding debts since 1998.\u00a0 Once again the greedy and incompetent junta that runs that country are causing damage to their people at a time when they can no longer afford to be damaged.<\/p>\n<p>I am seriously afraid that within five years, the next time Myanmar will be in the news is when a lot of people are massacred during an uprising.\u00a0 Either the generals will all be killed by angry mobs or the military will kill protesters in the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According the The Voice of America news website, the World Bank is refusing to give loans to Myanmar because the military government hasn&#8217;t paid any outstanding debts since 1998.\u00a0 Once again the greedy and incompetent junta that runs that country are causing damage to their people at a time when they can no longer afford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-world-affairs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9C8-n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}